Wednesday, February 24, 2010

I’ve got mad fever!

No, I am not talking scarlet fever or hay fever… It’s SPRING fever around here! Thankfully we’ve kicked our cold (I should say E and I kicked it, N might be coming down with it now). So things are more productive here especially since the weekend was warmer than usual, basically it was NOT jacket weather [...]

I’ve got mad fever!
Sunday, February 14, 2010

The day of red

18 months ago, thanks to my Fertility Awareness Method charting I knew I was pregnant, before I’d even missed my period. Now, over a year later I am back in the world of fertile women and am reminded of how bad it sucks to have “that time of the month” again… Oh and we have to [...]

The day of red
Monday, January 25, 2010

Road trip adventures Everly enjoyed.

Whew! After a week on the road we needed a day to decompress after getting back to Evansville. Yesterday we sat around in our PJ’s, did many loads of laundry, scrubbed cat vomit from the carpets, cleaned cat boxes… You know all the chores and stuff that go undone while you are away. Everly was a [...]

Road trip adventures Everly enjoyed.
Friday, January 22, 2010

The last time I showered in New Mexico…

What is it with shower situations in New Mexico? We are spending the night in Tucumcari, NM this time around. We got a cheap hotel to spend the night in and unfortunately it only has a shower. You see it’s a cheap hotel, tiny, clean and shower-less with a super loud heater… You get what you [...]

The last time I showered in New Mexico…
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Forging ahead – Bringing our car home from Arizona

We are on the road in our newly fixed car! After flying here and hanging out with family and friends it’s now time to make the trip back home, in our car. We spent much time this morning debating weather or not it was a good idea to make the trek up north to I-40 [...]

Forging ahead – Bringing our car home from Arizona
Friday, January 8, 2010

Live Blogging: Cat Swallows Needle

Here are my tweets as they played out during the night and early hours of the morning. I didn’t realized it would reach so many people. At first I was just tweeting so my husband would know what was going on, then I kept tweeting to be sure I didn’t leave anyone in the dark. [...]

Live Blogging: Cat Swallows Needle
Monday, January 4, 2010

Dazed, anxiety ridden and plagued with ham disease.

It’s true. N and I got the holiday ham that keeps on giving. It seems we have food poisoning or something… It’s been an ongoing thing for over a week now. We just tossed several pounds of ham leftovers after we figured it was the culprit, also tossed the spinach salad just for good measure. [...]

Dazed, anxiety ridden and plagued with ham disease.
Sunday, December 27, 2009

Christmas 2009 as parents.

I never thought I would be such a gingerbread cookie fiend! Last week we made up a ton of cookies to get in the holiday spirit and also so N would have cookies to take in to work for everyone. We’d been trying different gingerbread cookie recipes each year, nothing was particularly impressive and I thought [...]

Christmas 2009 as parents.
Sunday, December 20, 2009

Someone is excited about the holiday!

She’s not even walking yet and she’s already being a stinker about opening gifts early. After her gift snagging earlier in the week we moved all the gift bags and stuff with ribbon away from her reach. We thought the paper and curly ribbon was attracting her attention. Looks like she’s smarter about this gift [...]

Someone is excited about the holiday!
Saturday, December 19, 2009

A twitter addiction? Confessions and talk of loss.

I have a confession. I am fairly certain twitter is killing my creativity! I’ve been having issues with blog content since Everly’s birth. Sure I am a busy mom who is working part time in addition to caring for a new baby. Yeah, computer time is limited these days… The thing is it’s not the time that [...]

A twitter addiction? Confessions and talk of loss.
Friday, December 4, 2009

Baby leg warmers crochet fun

I’ve been working on making E a pair of baby legwarmers since October. I just finished them today which is kind of a big deal. You see I tend to start and never finish my knit and crochet projects… Today will probably be the only day she’ll wear them since it took me two months to [...]

Baby leg warmers crochet fun
Friday, November 20, 2009

Sunday Stealing: The Dating Profiles Meme

Welcome to The Dating Profiles Meme . This meme is based on a feature from WTIT: The Blog authored by Bud Weiser. Either you have used sites such as Match.com or Yahoo Personals or you’ve read them right? Well The Dating Profiles Meme scours those on-line dating sites, weekly so we can to respond to them. Well, [...]

Sunday Stealing: The Dating Profiles Meme
Friday, November 20, 2009

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans…

All the trees are naked and it is very close to freezing at night now. Thanksgiving is just right around the corner and we aren’t really sure where the year has gone. Life is blowing by so fast and it just feels like we are standing here in a blur while it all swirls around us [...]

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans…
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Today we are proud home owners!

Well, we’ve done it! Several years of planning and thousands of dollars later… We are now the proud owners of our own home! N was bummed that we had no “sold” sign to pose with out on the front lawn though… We may just have to stage it anyway, kind of like this: We went in [...]

Today we are proud home owners!
Friday, November 13, 2009

Sigh… Rest and recuperation are in order.

This will be the first weekend in probably a month or so that we’ll have to relax and get caught up on things. Marching season has come and gone, my 9th marching season is now over. Sure winterguard plans and ideas are in the works but it wont be until January when the performance madness picks [...]

Sigh… Rest and recuperation are in order.
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Is this labor? Signs and symptoms remind us parenthood isn’t far…

Posted on May 13 in 2008 pregnancyby TalinaPrintText Resizer Text Resizer

Yesterday I had planned to blog about all the free iris’ we got off freecycle over the weekend, I had other things to mention. Like a great aunt who responded to our pregnancy announcements/ baby shower invitation and wants to reconnect. She only lives a state away from us now… There has been a whole slew of stuff I was going to write about here on the blog…

Then real life hit and I was just drop dead tired yesterday. I napped right after visiting the chiropractor for my adjustments, then woke up, checked over the bills (N is training to take them over while I am away at The Farm), clipped a ton of coupons, strategized our grocery shopping and got a major memo from Tater.

She dropped down yesterday. She was really low and super, crazy active all night. I was having some major stabs of cervix pain along with some discharge (or early stages of mucus plug loss)… All early signs of labor. The thing is all these things can happen weeks before labor or just days before depending on the mom and the baby.

Tater is basically just warning us to get our butts in gear because the clock is a ticking! LOL.

I am not worried at all, she isn’t coming right this moment or anything. But she could if she wanted to! Basically I am just taking the hint and packing up everything I can for me, baby and getting as many lists and papers in order for N as possible because time is sure running out and we need to be ready in case things do get started early.

Got the “who to call when Tater is coming” phone list up by the phone. My medical records, midwife’s number, hospital’s number, parents numbers and all the emergency stuff is in a file for N. I am making a list of last minute things to grab right before we head off to the farm (like pillows from the bed, food, shampoo, etc). Got all the baby clothes/ blankets washed and packed for the trip. Have the partially stocked birth kit packed… You know just gathering, packing and preparing like a madwoman.

I’ll be “full term” in just 3 short weeks so literally Tater could be here any day now, or she could hold off and be late. It is all unknown, exciting and kind of surreal. Makes me say “Yay, wow and holy crap” all at the same time.

I plan to tweet via text messaging once labor begins and I plan to try keeping everyone in the loop this way (as much as I can based upon how I am doing at the time) so be sure to follow me on twitter if you want to see how things are going. You can also see my recent twitter updates here on the blog sidebar and I’ll probably embed them in a post once I am off to deliver Tater.

So, there you have the pregnancy updates… Now what have I forgot to put on a list or pack? Hmm I need to get busy.

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